Katharine Mieszkowski
Katharine Mieszkowski is an American journalist.Career
Mieszkowski is a senior reporter for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, winning the 2017 Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-Depth Reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists for the Reveal News four-part investigative series
She has been a senior writer for Salon.com and Fast Company magazine. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Glamour, Reader's Digest, Slate, Ms., and San Francisco magazine.
Her radio commentaries have been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and PRI's Living on Earth programs.
At Salon.com from Feb. 2000 to Aug. 2009, Mieszkowski covered the environment, science, and technology. Her 2000 story was anthologized by Michael Lewis in , published in 2008. Her story 2006 story about Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk was anthologized by Steven Levy in The Best American Technology Writing 2007.
When Mother Jones magazine won the 2009 Utne Independent Press Award for environmental coverage, judges cited Mieszkowski's piece about Wegmans, In 2001 Mieszkowski was honored as one of the top 25 Women on the Web by San Francisco Women on the Web.
Mieszkowski was the sixth employee of Women's Wire in 1994. On staff at Fast Company from 1997 to 2000, Mieszkowski covered Silicon Valley. Her column about San Francisco Bay area subcultures, "Culture Shocked," ran in the San Francisco Bay Guardian between 1997 and 2003.
Mieszkowski graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in Literature in 1993.
